Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Le 29/08/2014 06:59, Anthony D. Baye a écrit :
> > Once again I find myself having problems building povray on a new system...
> >
> > In short: I had to upgrade my mint distro to Mint 17
> >
> > So I'm trying to reconfigure a new system -- hopefully the last time I'll have
> > to do it for a while since Mint 17 is supposed to be supported through 2019 --
> > and I try to build povray, and...
> >
> > checking whether to link with cygwin DLL... no
> > checking whether to enable static linking... no
> > checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no
> > checking whether pthreads work without any flags... no
> > checking whether pthreads work with -Kthread... no
> > checking whether pthreads work with -kthread... no
> > checking for the pthreads library -llthread... no
> > checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes
> > checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
> > checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no
> > checking for boostlib >= 1.37... yes
> > checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... yes
> > checking whether the boost thread library is usable... no
> > configure: error: in `/home/lblackthorne/Build/povray':
> > configure: error: cannot link with the boost thread library
> > See `config.log' for more details
> >
> > I have libboost-thread1.54-dev installed.  In fact, I installed
> > libboost-thread1.54-all-dev
> >
> > but, for some reason, I can't configure povray.
> >
> > I think this:
> >
> > configure:7849: checking whether the boost thread library is usable
> > configure:7869: g++ -o conftest  -pthread  -pthread -I/usr/include  -L/usr/lib
> > conftest.cpp   -pthread  >&5
> > /tmp/ccQH1iGG.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int,
> > int)':
> > conftest.cpp:(.text+0x4f): undefined reference to
> > `boost::system::generic_category()'
> > conftest.cpp:(.text+0x5b): undefined reference to
> > `boost::system::generic_category()'
> > conftest.cpp:(.text+0x67): undefined reference to
> > `boost::system::system_category()'
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > configure:7869: $? = 1
> > configure: program exited with status 1
> >
> > is the relevant section of the config.log
> >
> > Help?  Please.
> >
> > Regards,
> > A.D.B.
> >
> >
>
> Try :
>
> ./configure COMPILED_BY="...as usual..." LIBS="-lboost_system
> -lboost_thread"

That worked, thanks.

A.D.B

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